Hernstein Castle
The Hernstein Castle is a castle in the Lower Austrian market town of Hernstein . In its present form it was created by the architect Theophil von Hansen in the second half of the 19th century. Currently (2017) it is used by the Hernstein Institute for seminars and as a wedding location.
location
Hernstein Castle is located in the north of the town in the middle of an extensive park with partial walls and an artificially dammed pond. It was built at the foot of a steep, wooded slope on Berndorfer Straße below the remains of the defense tower of the Hernstein ruin, which dates back to the 12th century.
history
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Karl Josef Graf Heussenstein had the existing Meierhof converted into a "courtyard house" between 1727 and 1730. In 1798, Baron Heinrich von Müller became the owner of the property and had the partially walled park and pond with the island built. In 1830, Archduke Rainer acquired the simple property, which consisted of four two-story tracts grouped around a rectangular inner courtyard. His son, Leopold Ludwig , decided in 1855 to have the building expanded and rebuilt as a hunting lodge in the style of his preferred English Gothic and commissioned Theophil von Hansen to do this , who created one of the most important structures of historicism (English Gothic) in Austria. The redesign of the façade was finished after two years, but the interior decoration dragged on until 1880, as it was also planned by Hansen as a total work of art. Hernstein served him as a field of experimentation for new ideas, which he then implemented in his buildings on Vienna's Ringstrasse .
In June 1943, Anton Habsburg-Lothringen sold the castle to Erste Österreichische Sparkasse . During the Second World War , the roof of the castle was badly damaged and from 1945 the castle was the seat of the Russian commander in chief. On January 1, 1963, the Vienna Chamber of Commerce acquired the property, adapted it and opened the Hernstein International Management Institute in it in 1966 . In 1976, a modern hotel building for the seminar guests was built on the north-west side of the palace, to which a further wing was added in 1994 on the west side.
description
The castle is a two-storey four - wing building on a slightly warped rectangular floor plan. Originally the emphasis was on the horizontal. In order to weaken this and to force the emphasis on the vertical, Hansen had towers built under steep hipped roofs on the narrower side wings above the passageways. In addition, he grouped the windows on top of one another, with the roofing of the windows on the ground floor merging into the tracery parapet ( window parapet ) of the window above. These windows in turn have flanking pinnacles that reach as far as the keel-arched roof houses, where they are connected to the small pinnacles of the roof windows by means of buttresses.
The frescoes in the interior are by the then most famous history painters Christian Griepenkerl , Eduard Bitterlich , August Eisenmenger and Carl Rahl .
Castle Park
The palace park is designed in the style of an English landscape garden. On the south side of the park is the garden gate, a tiered crenellated portal group with a large keel arch gate between pillars, flanked by small shoulder arch gates . Realized in 1857 based on a design by Theophil von Hansen . To the right of this is the porter's house with an L-shaped floor plan and made of quarry stone masonry under a gable roof.
literature
- Verena Benedek: Hernstein Castle - About Hansen's historicist rooms, their furnishings and their interior ; Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2008 ( online )
- Dehio-Handbuch Niederösterreich south of the Danube, part 1 ; Horn / Vienna 2003, pp. 773f, ISBN 3-85028-364-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Standard : Monument protection: cultural property as a minor matter ; Retrieved May 3, 2017
- ↑ DI Thomas Knoll, Mag. Margit Groiss, Mag. Sonja Völler: Expert opinion Schlosspark Hernstein from June 2, 2009 ( Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. )
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '50 " N , 16 ° 6' 6.8" E